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Bio

I am a Business Development Professional with over 11 years of experience in the industry. I have a proven track record of success in developing and executing business development strategies that generate new leads, increase sales, and expand market share. I am also an expert in sales, marketing, and customer relationship management.

I am a highly motivated and results-oriented individual with a strong work ethic. I am also a team player and have a proven ability to work effectively with others. I can significantly contribute to your team and help you achieve your business goals.

Here are some of my key skills and accomplishments:
– Developed and executed business development strategies that generated over $10 million in new revenue
– Increased sales by 300% for several WordPress themes and plugin companies.
– Managed to secure the second position in the LMS industry within 2 years of launching, where other competitors have been in the market for 6 years.

Interests

Customer Service
Business Development
Content Marketing
Technical Writing
Entrepreneurship

WordPress Origin Story

2012 – I made my first theme with WordPress, and I started using that for online newspapers for client projects.
2013 – Made custom themes for FTP sites and started learning to make plugins.
2014 – Failed miserably with RDBMS and decided to join weDevs as a happiness engineer.
2015 – Published my first plugin and joined the WordPress Bengali team as a GTE.
2016 – Attended WordCamp Singapore with the weDevs team.
2017 – Attended local WordPress meetups and arranged a meetup as a host.
2018 – Failed to form my own company and raise investment.
2019 – I was the venue team lead for WordCamp Dhaka 2019.
2020 – Continued doing more meetups to help freshers and increase their network.
2021 – Started working with Gutenberg blocks and took the initiative for WordCamp Dhaka
2022
– WordCamp Nagpur Speaker. I talked about starting an eLearning platform with just 50 USD!

2023
– WordCamp Asia Speaker. I talked about non-technical career opportunities within the WordPress ecosystem.
– WordCamp Dhaka Lead Organizer. It got canceled. Read more about it here https://dhaka.wordcamp.org/2023/
– WordCamp Udaipur Speaker: How to develop a sustainable sales and business strategy
– WordCamp Ahmedabad Speaker: Panel Discussion: The Entrepreneurs’ Journey: Stories of Triumph and Lessons Learned

Contributions

Sekander Badsha contributes 2 hours per week to the Community team.

Member Since: December 14th, 2012
Location: Narsingdi, Bangladesh
Website: sekanderb.com
GitHub: sekanderb
Job Title: Business Development Manager
Employer: Digiflakes
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Contribution History

Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Posted a reply to Can’t add employees from hiring process, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Yes, the automatic job applicant to employee conversion feature is available on the premium…
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Posted a reply to Keep getting the “Failed to save job” message, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If your email starts with theashe, I have replied to it a couple of hours…
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Hi, I am sorry for replying to your support threads late. I was down with…
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Hi, Please use the contact form on our website. I will send the latest dev…
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Created a topic, One of the best travel themes- hands down!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is one of the easiest theme to install and use. I…
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Posted a reply to How to Disable Plugins on Staging, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, You need to enter the code editor, rename the plugin, or remove the code…
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Posted a reply to Not working in LocalWP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @hoppylorinc, I am sorry to inform you that this feature does not work on…
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Yes, the debug mode was on. I have also tested on Hostinger, which offers a…
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Hello @antonyjosephsmith, Thank you for reporting the issue. Please allow us some time to test…
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Created a topic, Most feature rich Gutenberg blocks plugin ever, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
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